I continue to be amazed by the number and diversity of Doug Pratt’s. By adopting the pen name “Dog Rat” over 30 years ago, I preemptively avoided being mistaken for one of them.
The Doug Pratt interviewed here talks about being gay and Black in Cleveland. We’re the same age, but that’s all we have in common besides our name.
There is also a lack of diversity in my name, at least with hobbies, as I explained on my Contact page.
A very long time ago, after we moved into our first house, I was in a Cambridge audio shop buying an excellent NAD 3120 amplifier for the living room. As I recall, it was on sale for only $90.
The owner of the shop looked at my credit card and laughed. “You’re Doug Pratt? Doug Pratt is a crazy guy who comes in here all the time looking for bargains. You’re not Doug Pratt!” Except for the “all the time” part, I was guilty as charged and I still have the amp. Ten years later, shortly after we moved, another Doug Pratt moved into the town that I’d left.